Dressing carrier



1 192 1,614 585 8 7 E. c. ANDERSON DRESSING CARRIER Filed August 5, 1925 I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 9mm. Emma C 14/70'6/30/7 Jan. 18, 1927. 1,614,585

E. C. ANDERSON DRESSING CARRIER Filed August 3, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 a w w 3 1 UV? V/ILHMMHU M 4 m g m up: \5 K Q Q v j Iii. l I l l l l I l E U 9 g, rwmwwmuuuhwmv 5: g .1 W 7, @g 7 Q M M 6 4 Patented Jan. 18, 1927.

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Application filed- August 3, 1925. Serial No. 47,703.

My present invention relates to an improved dressing carrier for use in hospitals, sick rooms, and other places where it is necessary to transport moistened dressings for surgical and medical uses, and especially dessings which have been dipped or soaked in hot water or other liquids.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character by means of which the hot dressings may be carried with convenience and facility by the attendant. The carrier is embodied. in a flexible envelope which may be twisted to wring from the enclosed dressing surplus or excess moisture and for this purpose the envelope is fashioned with removable handles which when in place afford means for readily manipulating or twisting the envelope and dressing. The handles are attached to supporting frame members which permlt folding of the envelope and casing in order that they may be carried from place to place with convenience, and means are provided whereby the dressing may readily be inserted in the envelope and withdrawn therefrom as required. By the utilization of my invention the sterilized dressing or cloth may be maintained at all times in a sanitary condition and especially during the interim between the time it is soaked ordipped as in hot water, and its application for surgical or medical uses.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated two complete examples of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts of the carrier are combined and arranged according to the best modes I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 'l is a plan view of a carrier constructed according to my invention showing in dotted lines the manner of removing the end supports for the envelope.

Figure 2 is a cross sectional view at line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a detail view of one of the detachable or removable carrier-supports, showing by dotted lines the position of the support when being applied to the envelope and being withdrawn therefrom.

Figure 4 is a plan view of a larger carrier used with abdominal dressings and provided with a fold-able, swiveled, supporting frame.

Figure 5 is a detail view showing the carrier frame of Figure 4 illustrating by dotted lines the posit-iton of the frame while carrying a dressing.

Figure 6 is a detail sectional view showing a hinged joint between the supporting frame and a handle.

Figure 7 is an enlarged, detail, longitudi nal sectional view of the swiveled, hinged foldable bar of the carrier frame.

Figure 8 is a detail sectional view showing a swivel joint between a supporting-handle bar and foldable connecting bar, as used in Figure 4:. r

In carrying out my invention I utilize an envelope as 1 fashioned in flat shape of close ly woven material, as canvas which is durable, flexible, and may readily be laundered when required. The ends of the envelope are closed and provided with parallel casing's 2 and 3 and on one side, as the top, the envelope is fashioned with an open placket 4 extending substantially from end to end of the envelope and through which the dressing D may be inserted and withdrawn as desired. The upper side of the envelope is provided with a suitable number of grommets as 5 which provide outlets for water or other liquids or solutions when the envelope is twisted to wring excess or sur plus liquid from the enclosed dressing or dressings.

At the ends of the envelope are provided removable supports, which when the envelope is folded on its transverse center line are used to carry the device, and which are also adapted to be held in the hands when the envelopeis twisted to wring the water from the dressing.

These removable supports each comprises a supporting bar as 6 preferably of rounded form and having an unobstructed exterior surface and the rounded bar is designed to be slipped through the casing at the end of the envelope. An adjustable stop comprising a flanged collar 7 and set screw 8 is provided on the bar to accommodate various widths of envelopes and each of these duplicate supports is provided with a handle as 9 at its center portion.

The handle 9 is rigid with a handle bar 10 and two adjoining ends of the supporting bar 6 and handle bar 10 are connected by means of a pivoted link 11. The free ends of these linked bars are detachably connected together with means of a notched, pivoted lock plate 12 carried by the handle bar 10 and adapted to engage over a pin 13 passed transversely through the slotted or bifurcated free end of the supporting bar 6. A laterally projecting lug 14 is carried by the supporting bar 10 near its free end to retain the envelope between it and the adjustable stop 8 and it will be apparent that the use of the supporting bars in the casings maintains the ends of the envelope in 8X tended position while the envelope is being twisted to wring excess moisture from the dressing contained therein. When carrying the dressing the envelope is folded by bringing the two ends and supports of the en velope together, making a fold at the transverse center linerof the envelope. When twisting the envelope the handles 9 are held one in each hand and in this manner the moisture wrung from the enclosed dress ing, passing out through the grommet-s 5 and through parts of the placket 4.

F or large size dressings, as those used for abdominal purposes, a foldable, supporting and carrying frame is preferably used for the envelope as indicated in Figure 4, where the envelope 16 is provided with end casings 2 and 3, placket 4 and grommets 5 as in the smaller envelope 1.

ln this instance a combined handle bar and supporting bar 17 is slipped through the casings at the ends of the envelope, and provided with pivoted or hinged handles 17 as indicated at 18 in Figure 6 and the pivoted joint may be a snap joint to retain the handle 17 in position either alined with the handle bar 17 or at right angles thereto as indicated in Figure 4.

The two handle bars are joined by'a swiveled connecting bar that comprises two sections 19 and 20, preferably of tubular form and connected by an intermediate, short section 21 in order that the sections 19 and 20 may be folded to dotted position in Figure when the dressing is being carried.

To provide for the twisting movement of the envelope 16 a swivel joint, illustrated in Figure 8 is usedfor each handle bar, this joint being formed by an annular groove 21 in the ends of the connecting bar-sections and a hollow bushing 22 on the handle bars.

'means' for retaining A. pin or screw 22 in the bushing engages the groove to hold the handle bar and connecting bar together and to permit relative rotary motion.

To permit folding of the sectional connecting bar of the carrier frame as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 5, hinge joints 23 are provided at the ends of the intermediate section 21 which include a pair of hinge heads 24 in the tubular sections 19 and 20, and these heads are provided with longitudinal slots 25 through which pins 26 are passed and fixed to the respective sections 19 and 20.

The carrier supports may readily be withdrawn from the envelope in order that the latter may be laundered when necessary, and a suspending hook 27 Figure 5 may be used on the frame for hanging up the supporting frame when not needed for use.

The supporting members for the envelope may be fashioned of suitable materials that may be maintained in sanitary condition and provide a light structure for facile manipulation. In Figure 4 the envelope is retained on the handle bars by means of the handles 17 when the latter are turned to full line position and the. whole is carried by grasping two handles 17 in each hand as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 5.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a flexible carrier-envelope having end casings, of a pair of supporting bars in said casings, and pivoted handle-members on said bars.

2. The combination with a flexible car rier-envelope having end casings, of a pair of removable. supporting bars in said casings, a handle bar pivoted to each supporting bar and means for retaining said handle bar and supporting bar in locked position.

3. The combination with a flexible carrier envelope having end casings, of a pair of removable supporting bars in said casings, 7 said casings on said bars, a handle bar pivoted to each supporting bar and means for looking a handle bar and supporting bar in operative position, and a handle on each handle bar.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

EMMA G. ANDERSON, R. N. 

